So I’ve just come across this Mitt Romney ad via ESWN. Steve Benen, Matt Yglesias of the Atlantic and Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly all seem to be in agreement that this is, as Benen puts it, the dumbest. ad. ever.
I swear this commercial is cobbled together using deleted scenes from Starship Troopers.
On the contrary, it’s a pretty good political ad. It appeals to the general American constituency with the sort of Americans-are-so-great-that-people-hate-us “war on terror”, ant-Islamic rhetoric that most people in this nation eat up.